Melanie,

We currently have 3 providers in our office, there are usually two of us seeing patients on any given day. We see about 20-25 patients each per day. We use Updox right now and we are soon going to be using an interface for our lab (few test patients done through the new interface, more clicks but results will be searchable & can be graphed to see trends etc).

Once we got Updox, I requested faxes only from our labs, radiology etc. I didn't want anything mailed to our office. These are then filed through AC.

As for your in-house labs, we are in the same dilema. We are also doing in-house drug screens, lead testing, hemoglobin etc. There are basically a few ways to deal with these:

1) continue to use paper & scan them in
2) Use Excel to put the results in, then send a message to the appropriate provider. You can make your own custom speadsheet. Save it to the desktop then drop & drag it into your imported items section for that patient. From there anyone with excel (or Openoffice) can double click on it from within the imported items section and can read results, make comments, etc.

I do use the tracked data for HgbA1C's at the present moment, but once we use our interface then I won't have to do this anymore.

We aren't completely set up with AC how I want, but we are slowly getting there.

Marty
Physician Assistant
Fullerton, CA